The University of Massachusetts is investigating better ways to improve risk assessments and take more effective preventative measures for breast cancer. These projects are funded by the NIH and have already been supported with more than $13.5 million. Researchers in the fields of chemical engineering, biology, veterinary and animal science, public health, health sciences, and epidemiology are all part of the effort.
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First the ongoing UMass Amherst Research:
These are currently the top funded projects on the UMass Amherst projects:
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Project Title |
Administering Group |
Funding |
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USING FMRI TO MEASURE THE NEURAL-LEVEL SIGNALS UNDERLYING POPULATION-LEVEL RESPONSES |
NIMH |
$2,366,079 |
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CHEMICAL DETECTION OF MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS GROWTH AND ANTIBIOTIC RESPONSE DURING INFECTION |
NIAID |
$2,330,466 |
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ENDOGENOUS HORMONES AND POSTMENOPAUSAL BREAST CANCER: ETIOLOGIC INSIGHTS AND IMPROVING RISK PREDICTION |
NCI |
$1,009,278 |
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TARGETING MULTIPLE DISEASES THROUGH GAMMA SECRETASE |
NCI |
$951,325 |
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DISRUPTION OF PARITY-INDUCED TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PATHWAYS BY XENOESTROGEN EXPOSURES |
NIEHS |
$710,729 |
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STREAMLINE ASSESSMENT OF EARLY LETHAL PHENOTYPES IN THE MOUSE |
NICHD |
$664,796 |
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RANDOMIZED LIFESTYLE INTERVENTION IN OVERWEIGHT AND OBESE PREGNANT HISPANIC WOMEN |
NIDDK |
$611,876 |
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PREDICTORS OF EARLY MENOPAUSE |
NICHD |
$584,829 |
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PHTHALATE METABOLITES AND BREAST CANCER RISK IN THE WOMEN'S HEALTH INITIATIVE |
NIEHS |
$551,850 |
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DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF A METABOLOMIC PROFILE OF CHRONIC DISTRESS TO CARDIOMETABOLIC RISK |
NIA |
$531,453 |
$150 Million The Institute for Applied Life Sciences (IALS)
The Institute for Applied Life Sciences (IALS) at University of Massachusetts, Amherst is now fully operational and open for use by UMass faculty researchers as well as its industry and academic partners.(for more details see earlier blog UMass, Amherst Opens $150 Million Institute for Applied Life Sciences)
(Image Courtesy of University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
The institute was first established through a $95 million grant from the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (MLSC). An additional $55 million was later invested toward the construction and fit-out of the Life Sciences Laboratories building. This building is designed for interdisciplinary research, student training and large-equipment facilities. IALS also fosters spin-out companies and seeks to become a catalyst for a biotechnology hub in Western Massachusetts.
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Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease that affects nearly 1/3 of the world's population. Although eradication efforts have been undertaken, none have been successful and TB is still a leading cause around the world. Even though there are treatment methods for this infection, they are not always successful at killing the bacteria that cause TB. This provides life science researchers with more questions and research topics, to better understand the infection and bacteria and what causes treatments to work occasionally, but not always
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The Institute for Applied Life Sciences (IALS) at University of Massachusetts, Amherst is now fully operational and open for use by UMass faculty researchers as well as its industry and academic partners.
(Image Courtesy of University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
The institute was first established in 2014 through a $95 million grant from the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (MLSC). Mass invested an additional $55 million in toward the construction and fit-out of the Life Sciences Laboratories building. This building is designed for interdisciplinary research, student training and large-equipment facilities. IALS also fosters spin-out companies and seeks to become a catalyst for a biotechnology hub in Western Massachusetts.
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Dr. Madelaine Bartlett, a biologist at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, recently received a four-year $4 million grant from the National Science Foundation. The new research funding will allow Barlett and colleagues from UMass and other institutions to study the genes that regulate plant stem cell biology and their effect on fruit size and yield.
Read MoreTags: Stem cell research, University of Massachusetts Amherst, University of Massachusetts, agriculture, new research funding, Massachusetts, agricultural, MA, Northeast Region, UMASS, new research grant, NSF funding, NSF grant, NSF award, Plant Biology, agricultural business, agribusiness
(Image of brain by functional MRI via Wikimedia Commons)
Cognitive neurologist, Rosie Cowell of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst received a nearly $600,000 grant from the National Science Foundation. The funding will be used to develop and test her theory of how fine-grained visual perception interacts with the area of the brain critical to memory.
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Bacteria research has become an increasingly important focus for researchers in the biomedical community as of late. From studying antibiotic resistant superbugs at UCSD to investigating bacterial diversity at Rutgers University, researchers are using these microscopic organisms to provide insight into diseases that plague our society.
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A multi-institute research team, including scientists from MassBiologics at the University of Massachusetts, may have found the key to successfully treating and vaccinating against one of this decade's most famously lethal diseases: Ebola.
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Researchers at University of Massachusetts, Amherst are reaping the rewards of breakthrough food science research, in the form of USDA grants totaling over $1.5 million.
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Researchers at the University of Massachusetts are taking on a parasite that continues to wreak havoc in tropical climates and developing countries.
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